Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Holman Bible
“We weren’t born
International Standard Version
You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."
American Standard Version
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
You people are doing what your father does." They said to Him, "We were not born illegitimately; the only Father we have is God."
Anderson New Testament
You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.
Bible in Basic English
You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
Common New Testament
You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."
Daniel Mace New Testament
your actions are like your father. at this they reply'd, we are no bastards; we have but one father, even God.
Darby Translation
Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.
Godbey New Testament
You are doing the works of your father. They said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.
Goodspeed New Testament
You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."
John Wesley New Testament
Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.
King James 2000
You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"
Modern King James verseion
You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, even God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God."
Moffatt New Testament
You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."
Montgomery New Testament
"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."
NET Bible
You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."
New Heart English Bible
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Noyes New Testament
Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.
Sawyer New Testament
You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, God.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We are not born of whoredom; we have one Father, even God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."
Webster
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Weymouth New Testament
You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."
Williams New Testament
You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."
World English Bible
You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Worrell New Testament
Ye do the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father??od."
Worsley New Testament
But ye do the works of your father. Then said they unto Him, We are not born of fornication, we have one Father, even God.
Youngs Literal Translation
ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
Themes
Evil » Words evil words of men » Works
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Jews, the » National character of » Pride of descent, &c
Self-delusion » Exemplified » Jews
Self-righteousness » Instances of » Pharisees
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:41
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God. 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For, neither have I come for myself, but he sent me.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:16
For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.
John 8:38
I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father.
John 8:44
Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.
Exodus 4:22
And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my first-born,
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye are the sons of LORD your God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Isaiah 57:3-7
But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.
Ezekiel 16:20-21
Moreover thou have taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou have borne to me, and thou have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel 23:45-47
And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
Hosea 1:2
When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD.
Hosea 2:2-5
Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
Malachi 2:11
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.